Spain’s Hay Festival Segovia Announces Its September Program

Coming in September, the Spanish iteration of the Hay Festival at Segovia will feature internationally recognized authors and a focus on current events.

Another Hay Festival heard from, this time the Spanish iteration at Segovia. The program has been announced to include more than 100 speakers and 70 events in nine days’ time, September 16 to 24.

Now in its 12th year in Spain, this year’s Hay Festival Segovia has been ranked for the first time as one of the Observatorio de la Cultura’s list of outstanding cultural institutions.

In a prepared statement, the director of the Segovia installation of the international network of Hay events, Maria Sheila Cremaschi, is quoted, saying, “From cities, to food, to immigration, to peace, to Europe: our programme imagines the world as it is, and as it might be.” A Hay hallmark is a mixture of current events and arts programming that stretches the “literary festival” concept into something more broad-based and informative.

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